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December Sermon series

In 1865, an Englishman named William Chatterton Dix penned the words to a poem entitled "The Manger Throne." A few years later the first three stanzas of that poem were set to the music of an English traditional folk song called "Greensleeves" that soon became known as the beloved Christmas carol "What Child Is This?" This combination of poetry and music first was published in the United Kingdom. For close to a century and a half the question found in the title of this carol has become an annual reminder that something significant happened on that night in Bethlehem as someone significant lay wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. This child would change the world forever; but What Child is This?

MaryIn the gospel of Luke, when Jesus longs for the people of Jerusalem, he compares himself as a mother hen longing to gather her chicks under her wings."O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!" ~ Luke 13:34This motherly imagery is stated in the Bible as descriptions of the nature and character of God. Because the Scripture states that Jesus is the exact representation of God, these characteristics are true of Jesus as well. Therefore, these characteristics that would be true of Mary, also are true of the son of Mary who also was the son of God.